Rim-wrench or tire-bolter



(No Mdel.)

J. H. a G. H. ALLEN. RIM WRENCH 0R TIRE 130mm.`

No. 552,977. A Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

ANDREW HLRAMMPHOTO-UWD. wASHwG'mN, D C,

, UNITED ASTATES PATENT @Friesa JAMES ll. ALLEN ANI) CHARLES ll. ALLN, Oh SENECA, lLLlNOIS.

RIM-WRENCH OR TIRE-BOLTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 552,97*?, dated January 14, 1896.

Application led April 1l, 1895. Serial No. 545,309. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that We, Jarras H. ALLEN and CHARLES ll. ALLEN, citizens of the United States, residing at Seneca, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Rini-Trench or Tire-Bolter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for manipulating the nuts of tirebolts.

The object of the present invention is to provide a machine-wrench by means of which the nuts of the bolts which secure the tires 'to the rims or fellies of vehiole-wheels may be quickly and easily applied or removed, which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction, operate efficiently both to elamp the bolt to hold it from turning, and to revolve the nut for threading or unthreading it, and which shall also be quickly and easily adjustable to bolts of dilferent sizes and lengths, thereby rendering the same tool oapablo of being used on rims and tires of different sizes and thieknesses.

To this end the invention consists in the combination With a rod or bar of a iixed and stationary jaw mounted thereon, a sliding j aw adapted to move lengthwise thereon, and a lever connected With and adapted to operate said sliding jaw; in the particular means for operating the device and the manner of mounting the crank-shaft in the stationary and movable jaws; in the manner of aecomniodating the device to Wheels lof different diameter and size 3 and in certain features and details of Construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective vieu1 of my improved riinwrench or tire-bolter complete` Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, showing the manner of applying the same to a Wheel-rim, a portion of the Wheel. and hub being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the Wrench showing the manner of attaching and securing the chuck.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several iigures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an arm or bar preferably of Wood, provided with an elongated slot 2, adapted to receive and stride a bolt or pin projecting upwardly from said arm and passing through or partially through the aille-box of the Wheel to be operated upon. A metallic bar 3, preferably rectangular in erossseetion, is bolted to the outer end of the slotted arm 1 by means of two connecting-bolts ai and 5 or in any other convenient manner.

Upon the outer end of the bar 3 is loeated a stationary jaw 6, eomprsinga base portion 7, provided with a rectangular perforation 8, extending entirely through the same for adapting said stationary arm to fit snugly upon the bar 3. The stationary jaw G is secured to the bar 3 y means of a bolt Q, Which passes through the base portion '7 of the stationary jaw and also through a perforation in the bar The stationary jaw G also comprises an upwardly-extending arm l0, which is provided With two horizontal perforations 11 and 12 for the reception of the operating crank-shaft, and the threaded and ad j ustable center-pin hereinafter described.

A jaw 13 similar to the stationary jaw G in Construction is provided with a rectangular perforation 1i, by which it is adapted to receive and slide lengthwise upon the bar 3, above described. The "sliding jaw 13 also comprises an upnf'ardly-extending arm 15,

which is provided with perforations 16 and 17 in alignment With the perforations 11 and 12 .in the stationary jaw.

The operating or shifting lever 1S is pivoted to the stationary jaw upon the bolt 9, which Connects said stationary jaw with the bar 3, and the said lever is connected With the sliding jaw by means of a link 19, which is seoured at one end to a short stud-bolt on the base of the sliding jaw, and at its other end to the operating-lever just outside of the pivotal connection of said lever to the stationary jaw by means of a pivotal bolt or rivet 20, as shown. By vibrating the lever 1S the sliding jaw 13 Will be moved back and forth length- Wise of the bar 3, in a manner that will be easily understood.

The operating-shaft 21 passes through the 'perforation 1l in the stationary jaw and also through the perforation 16 in the sliding jaw, and is provided at its forward end With a IOO - serves to keep.

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In testimony that we elailn the foregoing as our own we have hereto adixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. ALLEN. CHARLES Il. ALLEN lVitnesses:

A. E. HANEs,

GEO. L. DAyisoN.

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